The British budget mixes sensible tinkering and fiscal fantasy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : His plan to phase out child benefits more gradually and at a higher income level smooths an unfair kink in the system that charged some parents marginal tax rates of over 60%.
56% : It would have been better to lower it: Britain's threshold is unusually high and incentivises businesses to avoid expansion (or to misreport sales) rather than be forced to grapple with the tax.
55% : Its overall record on income taxes is decidedly ambiguous: according to the Resolution Foundation, a think-tank, the net impact is to slightly lower taxes for those earning between £26,000 and £60,000 a year and, because of freezes to income-tax thresholds, to slightly increase them for everyone else.
49% : Reforming non-dom treatment was one such tax rise: Labour had set aside the proceeds for increasing the number of family-doctor and dental appointments, among other things.
37% : The longer-term aspiration to equalise tax treatment for families regardless of how earnings are divided between parents is also a good one.

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